特别兴趣团体

The 新兴技术学院 supports 特别兴趣团体 (SIGs) to promote information exchange, resource sharing and collaboration among faculty, staff, and students from different departments, colleges, and administrative branches. The mission and coordinators of each SIG are listed below. Please contact the SIG coordinators if you are interested in joining the SIG.

当前的团体

设计思考

协调员: Liyan Song ()

Design thinking research and practice has gained much attention in the past decade or so in a variety of learning contexts particularly in the STEAM fields. There are two perspectives on design thinking (Grots & Creuznacher, 2016). One considers design thinking as an innovative problem-solving process. The other sees design thinking as a culture and focuses on how design thinking promotes a positive and creative culture to people and the learning environments. Our design thinking SIG would like to promote both perspectives on design thinking through our collaborative research, practices, and networking endeavors.

数字人文

协调员: Christina Gibson (), Jasmine Malone (), Victoria McAlister ()

The 数字人文 Special Interest Group invites faculty from various academic disciplines to explore tools and methods. For the purposes of this group, anyone using digital tools to enhance their teaching or research in disciplines concerned with the experience of being human counts as a digital humanist. We meet two to three times each semester in the interest of cultivating an interdisciplinary community of practice, raising awareness about 数字人文 among faculty and students. In addition, we will distribute information about publication/ presentation opportunities, provide opportunities to request Cook 图书馆 investment in DH-related resources, and brainstorm ways to support a DH major on campus.

想象美国

协调员: Morna McNulty () and Romy Hübler ()

This Special Interest Group supports faculty and staff from across all colleges and divisions interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and creatively re-imagining their teaching, practice, and scholarship in partnership with 想象美国 (IA). IA is a consortium that brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. The Special Interest Group is a collaboration between 英热单位, 方面, the 公民参与和社会责任办公室, and 新兴技术学院.

社交媒体分析

协调员: Samuel Collins ()

The Special Interest Group on 社交媒体分析 starts with the recognition that social media intersect with multiple academic disciplines in multiple ways, from platforms for communication and dissemination of results to the object of analysis and the development of methodological tools. Similarly, projects in social media analysis are interdisciplinary to a high degree, with any scholarly endeavor simultaneously engaging technical, social, psychological, qualitative and quantitative inquiry. We see this group as a forum for 稳定的十大彩票网站 researchers engaged in social media analysis at any level, including: technical innovations, pedagogical applications, behavioral analysis, mapping, and digital humanities.

特别兴趣小组成员名单

稳定的十大彩票网站可持续发展实践社区

协调员: Sya Kedzior ()

The 可持续性 Community of Practice coordinates on an initiative to support sustainability-related course development at 稳定的十大彩票网站. The initial call broad and elicited proposals for both undergraduate and graduate courses (both stand-alone and cross-listed with existing undergraduate courses). Tenure, tenure-track, and lecturer faculty were eligible to apply for the $500 grant. The course development supported through this initiative advances the sustainability-related goals articulated in the University's strategic plan by further integrating sustainability across the curriculum.

Read the 稳定的十大彩票网站可持续发展实践社区概述 (PDF) to learn more about the history of this SIG, prior course development efforts, and the previous Call for Proposals.

过去的团体

Please contact the 新兴技术学院 at if you are interested in restarting a past SIG.

可访问性

协调员: Julia Caffrey ()

The 可访问性 SIG’s mission is to exchange resources and information to enhance teaching, learning, research and service in the areas of accessibility related to human difference. Over 30 faculty and staff members from across 稳定的十大彩票网站 meet often quarterly to discuss areas of common interest such as accessibility, disability, variability and accommodations related to human differences and how our teaching, research, service and use of technology may help us to better understand this vast interest area.

大数据

协调员: Philippe Duverger () and Nam Nguyen ()

The 大数据 Special Interest Group invites members from various academic disciplines and departments who would like to discuss and explore the topic of 大数据 analysis and the influence that 大数据 has and will have on our lives as consumers and citizens of the planet. Beyond the natural inter-departmental intellectual stimulation provided by the SIG, we propose to also raise the awareness about 大数据 at the 稳定的十大彩票网站 level and also in the metropolitan area by ways of forums, conferences, talks and other communications.

跨学科网络安全（Cyber4All）

协调员: Siddharth Kaza ()

Cybersecurity has critical political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information implications for our nation. Effective cybersecurity solutions require initiatives that not only prepare computer scientists to be cybersecurity professionals, but extend security education to all majors to produce a cybersecurity prepared workforce. 随着网络空间的普及，网络安全已成为每个人的事。 A comprehensive cybersecurity education model needs to reach all students and disciplines impacted by cybersecurity issues. The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Strategic Plan aims at broadening the pool of individuals prepared to enter the cybersecurity workforce. Despite consensus on the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to cybersecurity, few paths exist for undergraduates to obtain cybersecurity education outside of computing.

稳定的十大彩票网站 is recognized by NSA/DHS as Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations and Cyber Defense. It’s time to consolidate our work in cybersecurity and bring in the diverse knowledge on cybersecurity at Towson to the same table. This SIG will foster collaboration between faculty in all colleges at Towson and provide a forum for discussion on teaching and scholarship in cybersecurity.

眼动追踪相关研究

协调员: Maria Perpie Liwanag () and Prisca Martens ()

The Special Interest Group on 眼动追踪相关研究 invites members from various disciplines who would like to discuss and explore eye movement research. At our first meeting, we will share our questions and concerns and collaboratively develop goals, objectives, and an agenda for our SIG. Tentative possible topics/goals/objectives include, but are not limited to: discussions of eye tracking hardware and software systems; 就眼球运动的研究设计和测量方法交换意见； sharing of issues, such as calibration, data loss, etc.; highlighting applications of eye tracking research in various disciplines; collaborating and conducting interdisciplinary eye tracking research; 合作撰写眼动追踪研究的外部资助。

地理信息系统与环境信息学

协调员: John Morgan ()

Advances in sensor technologies and computer models has resulted in the ability to collect massive amounts of data to monitor and analyze environmental conditions on earth. As a result, new systems have become available to store, manage, and analyze environmental data. With this in mind, the 地理信息系统与环境信息学 Special Interest Group at 稳定的十大彩票网站 is focused on advances in technology for the management, analysis, and display of spatial and temporal data as it pertains to environmental science. Along with geographic information systems, as the title suggests, other technologies that are of interest to this group include database systems, sensor networks, data analytics, machine learning, information visualization, and information management.

公共卫生和卫生信息学

协调员: Devon Dobrosielski ()

The SIG in Healthcare Informatics is concerned with the application of computing and information science principles and techniques, and information and communication technologies, to address issues in healthcare and the delivery of healthcare services. The group aims to bring together members of various disciplines to evaluate the needs and problems of developing and managing medical information systems that can handle the complex uses to which they are put. The goal is to provide a forum for sharing and managing knowledge as a strategic resource for improving the quality, effectiveness, and use of healthcare information systems, data transfer amongst such systems, and inter- and intra-communication between them through rigorous application of medical informatics. The group plans to focuses on the following areas, but not limited to: health care delivery systems; 医学编码和分析； 临床信息学; medical databases and applications; 医疗保健中的数据挖掘与分析； emergency care systems (Triage and Paramedics); 公共卫生和社区卫生； mobile application development to promote quality of care; 医疗保健系统中的安全和隐私问题； regulations, standards and frameworks in healthcare systems; development of curriculum, certification and mentoring programs.